Enhancing the Design and Management of a Local Organic Food Supply Chain with Soft Systems Methodology
Enhancing the Design and Management of a Local Organic Food Supply Chain with Soft Systems Methodology
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用软系统方法加强当地有机食品供应链的设计和管理
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2012
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C. N. Hjortsø
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E. Tavella;C. N. Hjortsø
当地有机食品的供应链合作伙伴面临着不确定性，如合作和沟通不畅，这不能通过应用传统的供应链设计和管理技术来减少。众所周知，这些技术可以改善供应链的协调，但它们没有充分考虑到当地有机食品供应链的主要方面，如道德、可持续性和人类价值观。缺乏适合当地小规模有机食品企业的供应链设计和管理办法，需要加以发展。本文的目的是建议软系统方法（SSM）作为一种新的和合适的方法来设计和管理本地有机食品供应链。我们说明了如何SSM可以用来减少本地有机食品供应链的基础上，德国的情况下的不确定性。这一说明有助于确定使用特殊保障机制与临时、务实和结构性较差的办法相比的好处。主要的好处是思想、干预和变革，以及面向行动、有意义和参与性的决策。
Supply chain partners for local organic food face uncertainties such as poor collaboration and communication that cannot be reduced through the application of traditional supply chain design and management techniques. Such techniques are known to improve supply chain coordination, but they do not adequately consider major aspects of local organic food supply chains such as ethics, sustainability and human values. Supply chain design and management approaches suitable to small-scale, local organic food enterprises are lacking and need to be developed. The aim of this paper is to suggest Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) as a new and suitable approach to design and manage local organic food supply chains. We illustrate how SSM can be used to reduce uncertainties within local organic food supply chains based on a German case. This illustration serves to identify the benefits of using SSM, compared with ad hoc, pragmatic and less structured approaches. The major benefits are of thought, intervention and change, as well as action-oriented, meaningful and participatory decision making.